“The activity of the Communist and Workers’ Parties under the conditions of the pandemic and the capitalist crisis, for safeguarding the health and the rights of the popular strata, in the struggle to change society, for socialism. ”
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Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Characteristic features of the world, at the time of the emergence of Covid 19^ When the pandemic broke out, world society exhibited these characteristics:
First, the capitalist mode of production was already in an advanced degree of decomposition, prey to a “multidimensional and intense crisis, which shakes the structure of the system and all its superstructures; it Pandemic, crisis and class struggle unhinges the ecosystem and puts at risk the subsisin the world and in Mexico tence of humanity and perhaps all forms of higher life”. This is the main characteristic of our time, as the National Political Directorate of the Popular XXI Congress of our party valued.
Socialist Party of Mexico
Second, the distribution of wealth was already extremely unfair, concentrating a huge portion in very few hands - less and less, by the way - and in a handful of people, at the expense of the vast human majority. Third, the different degrees of development of the productive forces between countries, some highly developed and others very little. Fourth, the acute confrontation that exists between imperialism and all the peoples of the world, which constitutes the sharpestform of class struggle today. The world-dominant social class pledges all its resources - including the most perverse - in this struggle in its desperate attempt to extend its dominance, and the working class and the peoples, we strive to liquidate this unjust reality and build a superior one, which cannot be other than a socialist society, without private ownership of the means of production and exchange. All these characteristic features of contemporary society were already present when Covid 19 broke out, and this is a factor of exacerbation, even greater, of all the aforementioned contradictions, without exception, because it is true that “the pandemic has revealed even more intensely the disgusting face of capitalism, the historically antiquated character of the system of exploitation, the need for a superior organization of society and the economy, socialism ”, as it is well stated in the IB Group communiqué of the 23th of September. And, it is also true that “in the period that we have elapsed… (Since the 21st International Meeting)… the class struggle has not stopped, nor have the struggles of the communist and workers’ parties in defense of the rights of the workers stopped, the efforts to develop joint actions and their coordination ”, as stated in the same document.
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